find other ways to play and sort music. having tmanually rate them makes no sense since you are going to play what you want to play anyways. At least thats my 2 cents. i can understand it if it some sort of community situation, but for personal means, my preferences change weekly, why rate?

I had a similar problem when I migrated from WMP to iTunes and all my song ratings were left in WMP. I wrote a small program to import the ratings and play counts from WMP into iTunes. You can download the program from http://wmp2itunes.blogspot.com/

How is this different from just turning off live updating? When I try this tip, the Party Shuffle list doesn’t move to the next song after I rate one. I still have to manually move ahead, just like when I used my Unrated playlist with “live updating” turned off. (v7.5)

@Josh: Turning off live updating will in fact get you the same results, but we efficiency freaks are looking for a playlist that only has songs with rating = 0. Thus, say we happen to fall asleep at the wheel and not rate 10 songs, then get back on the bandwagon and rate 5 or 10, only to fall asleep again and miss another 5. You can see that, if we were to go back and rate the unrated songs, the easiest way is to edit the playlist, click the “live updating”, press OK to refresh the list, then edit the playlist again and untick the “live updating” checkbox. It’s much simpler to just create a smart playlist with rating = 0 and live updating turned on, and then set that playlist as the source of your party shuffle. Now… if you wanted to rate songs one by one off of an album from a particular artists, you’re SOL. I think this is for the ADD-prone peeps who just want to ram through their library at random and rate everything.